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- ShootTheCore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+63FreeBSD in not a Linux distro...
- samb0057, on 10/10/2007, -14/+61this is great, i voted for ubuntu
- DietMountainDew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+38I couldn't resist...
http://image.bayimg.com/aagpmaabm.jpg - fuzzyping, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32OPEN DOCUMENTATION AND SPECIFICATIONS
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -12/+39Just anything but SUSE, Xandros, and Linspire. No Linux PC should ever be sold with Microsoft 'tax'.
Being a company as large as they are many they can make Levonix... a Debian derivative would do. They already sell RedFlag Linux in China and they certify for Fedora, Ubuntu, and SLED. - peppych, on 10/10/2007, -8/+34Some guys said the 2007-08 should be the Linux years. Looks like they were right ;)
Ubuntu one up. - ubuntumatthew, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27I've been drooling over a new T61...this would likely push me over. I voted Ubuntu, but any of these would be great.
- trenchfever, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28I don't see why you are being dugg down. But I voted for ubuntu too.
Ubunut's primary target is the desktop. It is their focus. All these years, most distros gave up on the desktop of the average joe. It was ubuntu who took the game to an all new level. Bugs like "I see a lot of text and a blinking cursor" isn't ignored and scorned at anymore. The whole world is listening to your complaints. People are competing in the r IRC channels to fix problems like these. I remember a day, when linux meant hard work and hours reading man pages. "RTFM" was once elitist, now idiotic. Way to go free software, way to go linux. I have no one to thank but ubuntu. Way to go ubuntu. - baalzebub, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24somebody had to vote for Slackware...
- trollzor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21I voted for the "refuse binary drivers" option. Good quality GPLed drivers would mean you can run any GNU/Linux distro on the machines, satisfying everyone not just one distro. Binary laptop drivers would be lame, they wouldn't get updated and you'd be stuck with one certified version of one distro which would quickly get old.
- nickdot, on 10/10/2007, -10/+26Haha, they are jealous of the success of Dell. Long live Ubuntu! I hope they would sell it in the Netherlands as well. I am still waiting...
- purpmint008, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21Give me DEBIAN or give me DEATH!
- AnarkeIncarnate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14They don't give MS any money for copies sold. SUSE sales help Novell which is possibly one of the biggest contributors to open source out there. They were chosen by ATI to write their new open driver. They are major contributors to Gnome and KDE and one of the biggest to SAMBA. Go ahead, shoot yourself in the foot.
- Langford, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17I was going to vote Ubuntu also, but that "Anyone that refuses to carry binary-only drivers..." one was too compelling to pass up. Ubuntu was so far ahead, it didn't really matter what i voted for.
- iChainsaw, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14ubuntu is winning by a landslide
- yoyar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Every next year for the past 5 years has been prognosticated to be the year of LInux. So, eventually, someone was going to be right.
- GaiaAP, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16One more for Ubuntu.
- jhshukla, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I don't care as long as there is good support & open standards for hardware.
- niallabrown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I would be happy with Ubuntu or Fedora but I think Ubuntu is the most polished and accessible for people who want to jump ship from windows. In the future I'm sure we will see more flavors through the big suppliers but for now I think Ubuntu is the best thing for Linux adoption and will ensure that linux over all becomes more popular in the mainstream market. People will lean about others as they get more exposure.
- Zap2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Ubuntu...if Lenovo goes Ubuntu, thats two major PC makers "supporting" Ubuntu, so as MS losing power, Ubuntu will over gain it! Now if we got HP behind Linux we'd be set!
However I'd settle for Acer and/or Sony. If we got 3/5 PC makers shipping Ubuntu, I think we could avoid a splintered computer market. - pentium4borg, on 10/10/2007, -7/+17I have no idea why Gentoo is even on that list. Sure, I run Gentoo on my own machines, but it's not for n00bs. Ubuntu is best here, in my opinion.
- Sabretou, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Man, Ubuntu is in a 67% lead, followed by Debian at 10%. I wonder who'll win this heated competition.
- CAPSLOCKISCOOL, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14No, is BSD, which, like linux, is a posix-compatible unix clone
- teknomunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Doing this will bring about more drivers
- ShootTheCore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Nothing of it, just pointing out a mistake by a big technology company...
- Coded1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Exactly how I voted, I couldn't believe it ranked so low. Wouldn't that be the best thing? That effectively means all operating systems regardless of origin could interface the laptop, isn't that what OSS is all about?
- kettlechips, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Debian is not for novices.
- Xilon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Here it comes, the consequences of all the "* on Ubuntu", etc, stories...
Any linux app can run on any linux distro. Of course there probably are some apps that need to work with some other specific software or configuration and hence it may be difficult to install, but in theory that statement stands. - gotamd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10AnarkeIncarnate has a point. Novell contributes a *lot* to open source development and SUSE (and SLED) is not a bad distribution at all. It's my favorite.
- Disfnord, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yeah, then he'll enjoy some music. That'll learn him to be such a noob!
- Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I voted for ubuntu as well.
I would also like to see gpl'd drivers. - AnarkeIncarnate, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10you're not the only one
- astra05, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8FreeBSD is a choice, which is good cause it is a very good operating system; however the support for FBSD would be alot higher than a option like Ubuntu. This is true as the amount of people highly knowledge of FBSD are fewer than Ubuntu/Linux
- amfantasy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7maybe it's just me, but those screenshots never get old.
+1 - YourDoom123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8actually, the winds seem to be changing. non-tech savvy people have not only heard of linux, but are willing to try it all of a sudden. my friend for example whom i've never bothered to explain anything about linux to wants to try it because its "cool". i pretty much choked at that point...
- eatbeefjerky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yes, you can. However, some distros "come with" a certain desktop environment and therefore most of the included applications will be "for" that environment.
- Spr0k3t, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7over90000: Please remove the Linux/Unix section from your digg preferences... your posts are annoying.
You != everyone - hexydes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Exactly. It's not that everyone dislikes the other distros, it's just that Ubuntu is the furthest along for new users, and has the support of Dell, which is huge. If all the manufacturers all support different distros of Linux, it will just cause confusion among consumers.
Imagine walking into a store, looking at an HP computer, if you are a normal consumer:
"Hi, I want a computer, but I don't want Windows Vista on it. I heard that some computers have something called 'Ooboonti' or something; is that what this (the HP) has?"
"Oh, no, this particular computer has something called Fedora on it."
"Oh, well...I don't know what that is. My friend told me to look for Ooboonti."
"Well they're all just different distributions of something called Linux. They just have different underlying systems and have some other differences."
"Well...I don't know. Nevermind, show me the computers you have with Windows."
"Certainly sir (a sale's a sale)!" - stmiller, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6BSD is good for a server but Linux is better for the desktop.
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6What's with~ the~ squigglies!?~
- nickdot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I am wondering why this poll is so different from distrowatch (last 30 days):
Rang Distributie H.P.D*
1 PCLinuxOS 2521>
2 Ubuntu 2150<
3 openSUSE 1446<
4 Sabayon 1285>
5 Mint 1063<
6 Fedora 1037<
7 Debian 920<
8 MEPIS 796=
9 Damn Small 688>
10 Mandriva 681
So where is the most popular distro "PCLinuxOS"? Also OpenSuse should have gotten much more votes. I think this illustrates where the power of Ubuntu is: in its active community. Jono can be happy. (Maybe it also illustrates that results of polls are questionable anyway.) - wooptoo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Voted for archlinux. ugh, it has only 8 votes. Oh well, I guess Ubuntu will win.
- krizhere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That Ubuntu would win was almost certain. The good thing about linux though is that if one works (Ubuntu) in this case, then making another distro work as well shouldn't be that hard. Heck, we manage to make our laptops work even now, without any "official" (you can remove the quotes) linux support.
- dimension128, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yea, but most of the people voting don't care about (or even understand) that, they just want to see a shiny spinning cube and think only Ubuntu can do it.
- Xilon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Uhh those stats say _nothing_. I could have *****'s page on auto-refresh and make it hit #1...
- PhirePhly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Even if I used Slackware day to day I would still vote for Ubuntu. Trying to get a noob to use Linux, Ubuntu is by far the best choice.
- Sairgem, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"What if one day you will notice that one application requires Ubuntu to operate?"
You don't understand how open source works, do you? - Xilon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You want a preinstalled Gentoo? What about all the USE flag configuration, the compiling, the installing what-you-want...? It's a very bad distro for this type of thing.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I voted for Ubuntu as well... I find it better than any other distro I've ever used.
- Zap2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The idea is to get people who don't install ther own OS, to run Linux. If only people who know there computer stuff use Linux, we're screwed. MS will win. We need the person who doesn't know what CRT vs LCD is.
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